Chris {∜}

@baltic_dan truly a Dan of the people

That's the problem with treating sex as a synonym for gender when they should be treated distinctly. Sex is fixed based on DNA and gametes as noted by physicians at birth. Gender sometimes changes as humans grow through puberty so can be fluid. Maintain this distinction OR ELSE female athletes will suffer the consequences as we're seeing in blue states like WA. normanjansen.substack.com/p/sex-vs-gender

🦔 Walmart scrapped OpenAI's Instant Checkout after customers kept getting wrong items in their carts and conversion rates came in well below Walmart's own channels. Now they're embedding their in-house Sparky chatbot into ChatGPT and Gemini instead. When you ask ChatGPT for paper towels, Sparky handles the search and processes the order. OpenAI gets a referral fee. Walmart owns the customer relationship. The new setup converts at 70% of Walmart.com's direct rate. Target reportedly turned down a similar OpenAI deal last year. Amazon hasn't touched third-party AI integration with Alexa. My Take Five months ago LinkedIn was calling this a game-changer for how people shop. Turns out when an LLM hallucinates the wrong items into your cart, people stop using it. Search bars and add-to-cart buttons aren't hard. A prompt adds steps and introduces error. Retailers have the inventory, the logistics, the customer relationships. OpenAI has a chat interface. Walmart figured out they can rent distribution without giving up the business and I'd expect other retailers to follow the same playbook. Own the agent, plug it into whatever platform has users, keep the transaction. OpenAI wanted to become the commerce layer where transactions happen, but it turns out the companies with actual products to sell have leverage and the company with the language model doesn't. Hedgie🤗